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In 2001, she joined the Jacksonville State football team as a backup placekicker. She became the first woman to play and score points on August 30, 2001, when she kicked an extra point in the first quarter of a game against Cumberland University. She would go on to make two more successful extra point attempts in the game, which resulted in a ...
He was the first Hispanic-American to play in the NFL and the second person of Hispanic descent to play in the league. Prior to 1999, Rodriguez was considered to be the first Latino to play in the league; however it was later discovered that Cuban-American Lou Molinet played for the Frankford Yellow Jackets in 1927 (but because Molinet was a ...
Kristie Elliott - First Canadian woman to play, and to score, in an NCAA football game, which she did on September 11, 2021, as a kicker for Simon Fraser University. [4] [5] Julie Harshbarger – First woman to score a field goal in a men's professional football game, as placekicker for the Chicago Cardinals in the CIFL in 2010.
In 1951, he became the first American to play professional baseball in Japan, leading off for the Yomiuri Giants. Hines Ward , who was of Korean descent, played both football and baseball. Prior to playing wide receiver at the University of Georgia , Ward was drafted by the Miami Marlins and offered a $25,000 signing bonus. [ 15 ]
The first Latino coach to win a Super Bowl, Tom Flores, also did so before the first black coach, Tony Dungy, won a Super Bowl. And the first Latino player in the league, Joe Aguirre, entered the league before Kenny Washington and Woody Strode became the first black players to play in the league.
The Dayton Triangles also featured the first two Asian-Americans in the NFL, Chinese-Hawaiian running back Walter Achiu and Japanese-Scottish quarterback Arthur Matsu, both in 1928, and the first Hispanic players in the NFL, Cuban immigrant Ignacio Molinet of the 1927 Frankford Yellow Jackets and Jess Rodriguez of the 1929 Buffalo Bisons ...
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif., the first Mexican American woman in Congress, ... The first Latino from California elected to Congress since 1879, he would become one of the most influential ...
1965: Patsy Mink becomes the first Asian American woman elected to the U.S. Congress. 1971: Norman Mineta becomes the first Asian-American mayor of a major city (San Jose, CA) in the United States. [51] 1971: Herbert Choy becomes the first Asian-American U.S. federal court judge, appointed to the U.S. court of appeals for the ninth circuit. [52]